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Detective

Use skills of observation and intelligence to figure out clues to a bigger picture or mystery.

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Text based

Focused on using its text, moreso than its visuals or audio, to tell the bulk of its story/plot. (Still can have great audio and visuals, though!)

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A game about a boy trapped in a time-loop.
Puzzle
You get one try to exonerate your friend.
Puzzle
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A melancholic story with detective elements and three endings.
Visual Novel
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A text-based detective game set in a fantasy setting.
Interactive Fiction
Where Circus Freaks wake up to devour their prey...
Visual Novel
Interactive Narrative Experience driven by conversational AI Characters, created with ChatGPT Language Model.
Visual Novel
This is a Mystery Text Adventure set right in the middle of a small town in the West.
Interactive Fiction
Take a trip down to Skeld High! You are a transfer student here, make the most of your time! Good luck!
Visual Novel
A text-based mystery game based on Alexis Hall's Affair of the Mysterious Letter
Interactive Fiction
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"We'll make it out together and become friends"
Role Playing
Rediscover Memories
Interactive Fiction
Interrogate suspects and look for clues in an attempt to find out who stole “The Miserable Clown”.
Interactive Fiction
The Trials and Tribulations of a Time-Traveling Assistant Detective, an interactive parody
Interactive Fiction
Paper Detective is a text-based mystery game made for Android devices, set in 1907 London.
A visual novel game
Visual Novel
A short IF mystery where you take on the role of Hastings and assist Hercule Poirot in solving a murder.
Interactive Fiction
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Text puzzle game in which you play the detective going through a computer to solve a murder
Puzzle
Investigate a group chat on a victim's phone, find clues, fill a report - and try to save someone!
Puzzle
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A detective game without a detective
Visual Novel
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"Sumérgete en un mundo de misterio y desentraña la verdad en esta apasionante novela visual de detectives."
Visual Novel
Story of Alice and a cleaner and a detective.
Adventure
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1920s Detective Mystery
Visual Novel
Find the killer through the process of elimination
Puzzle
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Investigate a crime at the horse races
Puzzle
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Forbidden books in an abandoned abbey
Interactive Fiction
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Can you find the killer?
Puzzle
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Explore Terminus City to investigate and solve a theft from a corporate vault.
Interactive Fiction
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A thief has died while attempting to break in to an art gallery. But something is not quite as it seems....
Interactive Fiction
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You are on an island with ten dead. But if you are the detective, who is the killer then?
Puzzle
An audio puzzle story set in Max Gladstone's Craft Sequence world
Puzzle
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